Dry County · Bon Jovi

206 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 10:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
10:18
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 29-31, and 14 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DRY COUNTY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 35 and 28 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 24 sections: 125 keep time, 34 are fills, 13 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-95.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART AA
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
13 groovesFAAACAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dry County?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Dry County hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 10:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dry County?

24 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 35 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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